Show HN: StraightUp - News at your pace

Posted by pvans on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @03:21PM
from the show-hn dept.

ewencp and I are building this service to help people keep up on news more efficiently: readstraightup.com

Our blog explains what we're trying to accomplish: blog.readstraightup.com/post/62080241248/introducing-straightup

We'd appreciate any feedback, e.g. usability, whether the value proposition is compelling, etc.

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Re:Show HN: StraightUp - News at your pace by pvans on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @03:24PM (#6446717)

Clickable links:

http://www.readstraightup.com

http://blog.readstraightup.com/post/62080241248/introducing-...

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Re:Show HN: StraightUp - News at your pace by jdogr on Friday September 27, 2013 @09:45PM (#6460545)

Great start on an interesting idea! One thing I noticed was the time durations when filtering by time. I'm not sure you need it going back as far as 6 months especially since filtering by importance would be next to impossible.

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Re:Show HN: StraightUp - News at your pace by pvans on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @07:10PM (#6518476)

Thanks! People rarely go back that far, but it probably doesn't hurt to have the option in case they want to.

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Re:Show HN: StraightUp - News at your pace by MWil on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @05:08PM (#6447296)

trying it out, first thing I notice is that when I want to add something that isn't already built in it tells me "that source is already in the collection" when it clearly isn't

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Re:Show HN: StraightUp - News at your pace by ewencp on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @05:26PM (#6447390)

Thanks for trying it out. Sounds like a bug in the collection editor. I want to improve that process to handle cases like yours -- if you don't find the feed, make it easy to look it up and add it -- but I wasn't sure that was top priority since a lot of people end up using feeds that are already in the system.

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